{"id":550,"date":"2012-07-24T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-07-24T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:27:52","slug":"sally-ride-first-us-woman-in-space-dies-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/sally-ride-first-us-woman-in-space-dies-at-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space used to be a man\u2019s world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail for U.S. women into orbit. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by heart: Shepard, Glenn, Armstrong and Aldrin.<\/p>\n<p>Ride, the first American woman in orbit, died Monday at her home in the San Diego community of La Jolla at age 61. The cause was pancreatic cancer, an illness she had for 17 months, according to her company, Sally Ride Science.<\/p>\n<p>Ride rode into space on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, when she was 32. Since then, 42 other American women flew in space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSally was a national hero and a powerful role model. She inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars,\u201d President Barack Obama said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>When shuttles started flying frequently with crews of six or seven, astronauts became plentiful and anonymous. Not Ride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople around the world still recognize her name as the first American woman in space, and she took that title seriously even after departing NASA,\u201d Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle commander, said in a statement. \u201cShe never sought media attention for herself, but rather focused on doing her normally outstanding job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2012\/07\/23\/sally_ride_first_us_woman_in_space_dies_at_61\/\">http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2012\/07\/23\/sally_ride_first_us_woman_in_space_dies_at_61\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space used to be a man\u2019s world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail for U.S. women into orbit. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by heart: Shepard, Glenn, Armstrong and Aldrin. Ride, the first American woman in orbit, died Monday at her home in the San Diego community of La Jolla at age 61. The cause was pancreatic cancer, an illness she had for 17 months, according to her company, Sally Ride Science. Ride rode into space on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, when she was 32. Since then, 42 other American women flew in space. \u201cSally was a national hero and a powerful role model. She inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars,\u201d President Barack Obama said in a statement. When shuttles started flying frequently with crews of six or seven, astronauts became plentiful and anonymous. Not Ride. \u201cPeople around the world still recognize her name as the first American woman in space, and she took that title seriously even after departing NASA,\u201d Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle commander, said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1491],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-sally-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}